Justices Emmanuel Agim and Adamu Jauro, two other judges on the five-member panel, dissented from the majority ruling.
Justice Emmanuel Agim dismissed the appeal brought before it by Professor Jerome Nyameh challenging the May 25, 2022 Taraba governorship primary election that produced Mr Kefas.
A judgment by a five-member panel of justices led by Centus Nweze held that the appeal by the PDP was without merit.
Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, who led a five-man panel, over a judgement of an appeal court and upholded the ruling of the high court.
APC claimed that the primary election conducted on May 27, 2022 which produced Mr Machina is unknown to law because it was conducted by unlawful people.
A former presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), Ambrose Owuru, filed the suit against Mr Buhari.
“Stakeholders of the party in Orlu zone have vehemently declared Chief Emeka Ihedioha persona non grata for ‘masterminding’ the loss.”
Iranian security authorities accused him of passing secret information to British intelligence, to which Mr Alireza Akbari had denied.
The apex court upheld a much earlier ruling by the Appeal Court in Calabar that the selection process of the Obong was marred with irregularities.
The Supreme Court is to deliver judgment on Friday in the legal battle over the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Jigawa.
